Author Archives: Joel Wendt

The Gravity of the Situation – a mediation on the Presence and Fullness of the Holy Mother – zero grounded ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!!~~emanations and all … aka: miracles … Too much Zero Gravity and bad stuff happens to our bodies, and perhaps our heart’s mind as well. Falling usually hurts, when we hit the “ground”. A well […]

Thoughts on distinguishing the essential from the non-essential, based on the authority of an American shaman and initiate in both the mysteries of the Son, and of the Mother, all around good guy, fantastic writer and poet, father, son, frequent user of ganja to go into the dreaming, and … well, my fine qualities have […]

Sunday musings after watching Marvel’s “Captain America: the first Defender” …Where is Christ now? Has He been crucified in the ethereal? Does spiritual history always repeat itself?Rudolf Steiner, being the John the Baptist figure of the second coming of Christ, in clouds of glory, … did Steiner’s head get separated from his body? RS died […]

The causal element in viral and bacterial diseases … We have to appreciate, and understand, that Rudolf Steiner suggests the “germ” is not the cause of the illness. Rather, the inner environment of the human being becomes a kind of field of ripe grains, on which the “bugs” feed. The causal question then is what […]

Anthroposophy and Christianity – an update, rooted in decades of spiritual research, … American ~!~!~!~Style Rudolf Steiner was clear. Anthroposophy is not Christianity; and, Christianity was/is still becoming. Robert Jan Keldar, a serious and learned student of Rudolf Steiner, is urging that coming meetings of the Anthroposophical Society in Dornach take up this theme, and […]

“Luciferic and Ahrimanic Forces” This language appeared recently in a Facebook page that was working hard to wrestle with the “behaviors” of contributors. To help with that, here are some additional ways of looking at this situation. “Forces” is perhaps a misleading term, especially if we conceive of these forces as disconnected from spiritual beings, […]

The Michael School and the End of Western Civilization The Michael School also could be called: “mystery science”. Students of Rudolf Steiner do not own this School. The Countenance of Christ is touching all true faces … all hearts that seek – as best they are able – to do the good, and think with […]

Rhubarb’s Dilemma Rhubarb had a not so odd – or uncommon – parentage. To Americans, most anyway, it might seem strange, … foreign at least. His mother was the child of a French officer and a Vietnamese whore. His father was the get of an American black soldier, and a different Vietnamese whore. Rhubarb was […]

A Song of the Ancestors – a tale of loss and wonder Ralph looked up from the pots he was washing, in the kitchen of the homeless shelter. The weather outside was playing with rain and thunder, and some bits of lightening thrown about for good measure. Ralph heard the door to the outside open […]

The Barbarians are Inside the Gate (“Barbarians” in ancient times meant) a member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian). “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Walt Kelly’s Pogo. There is a joke about a guy who wakes up several centuries in the […]